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D. Hicks

49 trust researcher @danhicks.bsky.social · 3,020 followers
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Policy & governance.

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philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50
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I saw a bunch of people dragging this study based on the recruitment emails back in the spring. But it seems to have resulted in empirical evidence for exactly the critiques those people wanted to make! arxiv.org/abs/2606.08251

Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science arxiv.org
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  • No model class tested — reasoning or non-reasoning — spontaneously proposed null hypotheses, a move scientists make more freely.
  • Non-reasoning LLMs converge into a 'hivemind' of similar ideas; LLMs struggle most in pluralistic fields like the social sciences.
  • The study drew 25,139 rating sets from 6,749 scientists across biology, medicine, chemistry, and the social sciences.
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I realize the WSJ reporter who wrote this does not have a ton of government reporting experience, and they've fired their science desk, but I would assume someone there knows about Article I of the United States Constitution.

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I see we've decided to move on to conspiracy theories and/or confusing LLM training with social media algorithms

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You don't have to use AI or even like it. But try to avoid confidently making clearly false statements like "AI can't do web search." They've had web search tools for like two years now.

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Today we're mad that Substack has made a partnership with Pangram, an AI detector that (a) has an extremely low false positive rate, (b) isn't based on "AI tells," and (c) does not itself use generative AI

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